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by staunton 4y ago
Ask a lawyer...
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by staunton 4y ago
> Having separate temperature scales for scientists and "common folk" is at least one little step away from that goal. so you'd actually prefer to get weather forecasts in Kelvin?
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by staunton 4y ago
You still need people to perform the actual atrocity once the victims are chosen. That is, unless you also assume military robots, which you didn't list.
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by staunton 4y ago
How can you possibly be this cynical? There are bad actors and corruption in every political system. But different systems and different implementations of them have different levels of these. I would say most governments do an OK job (comp
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by staunton 4y ago
That's not what I said. There is a balance to be found. I only objected to "this restriction actually makes everyone free (to do what I think they should)" being used as an argument. If enough people agree, sure, you can ban
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by staunton 4y ago
The way to solve social media is to ban advertising. There, I said it.
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by staunton 4y ago
You're assuming they're trying to have a conversation...
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by staunton 4y ago
What do you need a "consistent ideology" for? These things seem to be what the majority of people in those states want (for better or worse).
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by staunton 4y ago
"any legislation restricting behavior actually frees people to do what they always wanted (the government knows best what that is) but just couldn't because of all these other possibilities misguiding them"
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by staunton 4y ago
In many countries there is a tendency in healthcare to perform a lot of medically unnecessary or even harmful surgeries (back, hips,...) to make a larger profit. The optimal treatment would be cheaper and less profitable, so it is not chose
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by staunton 4y ago
> That's not to justify the Inquisition, but rather, it isn't as if how we do things now is all that much better. a lot of countries don't have capital punishment and people are usually assumed innocent until proven guilty
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by staunton 4y ago
Yes, conjecture. Nobody knows for sure what will happen (although some claim they do). As someone else pointed out, > Calls for extreme curtailment of fossil fuel usage for example would lower quality of life beyond what global warming w
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by staunton 4y ago
Yes, my point being that the macro in this case is an "abstraction", and we were discussing GP's claim "all abstractions bad" (i.e., to quote them, low level code should be "as least abstracted as possible&quot
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by staunton 4y ago
> Calls for extreme curtailment of fossil fuel usage for example would lower quality of life beyond what global warming will do. Depends on whose quality of life you mean. A lot of people (who were never using a lot of fossil fuels to be
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by staunton 4y ago
> Imagine Linux kernel written in OOP way with design patterns and SOLID principles. Doesn't sound that terrible to me. Just out of interest, do you think `*(int*)(0x12345678) = 0;` is the best way to do memory-mapped IO? That&#x2
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by staunton 4y ago
You don't explain why the estimation itself (error of "60") is always an underestimate. The article does discuss this but your comment sounded to me like it was meant to be self-contained.
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by staunton 4y ago
You considered suicide but not quitting? You're still waiting for your contract to end? I don't understand.
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by staunton 4y ago
A test being a good indicator of human learning progress and ability is almost completely orthogonal to it being a good indicator for AI learning process and ability. In their everyday jobs, barely anyone uses even 5% of the knowledge and s
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by staunton 4y ago
> I'm not certain for C, but definitely in C++ it's legal to union a bunch of structures with a common prefix, and then talk about the prefix in the "wrong" variant and that's OK That doesn't sound right to
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by staunton 4y ago
Yes, of course. If you use C++, try to not shoot your foot off. The same advice also applies to Rust or any other programming language. You should still try to follow best practices and not mess up, even if a language makes it less likely t
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by staunton 4y ago
"Genuine desire to do good" doesn't make money and leads to less shareholder value. If "desire to do good" exists in a company, it is necessarily eliminated when the company either gets more efficient or fails. In o
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by staunton 4y ago
The overhead is the same. Rust just takes care that you're doing it right, while C++ lets you shoot your foot off in this area.
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by staunton 4y ago
What words mean is always a matter of definition. It is also usually (maybe even always and necessarily) vague. Humans are inclined to anthropomorphize and ascribe agency to pretty much everything. So my fairly confident prediction is that
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by staunton 4y ago
Yes, you can define "having an opinion" to be something that only humans can do. Then you have to use a different term when talking about language models. In that case, asking whether the models have opinions is pointless because
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by staunton 4y ago
I don't know whether the monad library is nice but caching compiles code is something they are making great progress on. Veraion 1.9 seems able to store most compiled code on disk.
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by staunton 4y ago
You ask the people who programed it how much time they spent making it not explicitly endorse any opinions and what it was like before they put in this effort.
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by staunton 4y ago
> there are also people that are just remarkably unaware of how to be remotely statistically rigorous That reminds me of D. Kahneman's self-righteous book where he recounts teaching statistics for years "without it ever occurin
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by staunton 4y ago
In my field there's lots of honest and fruitful collaboration. It's not all perfect but definitely a good situation. Technology has been making collaboration easier and faster as well. Globalization has led to international scien
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by staunton 4y ago
> at the heart of the reasons why this structure is the way it is, you find people's utter lack of knowledge about how science does and should work I don't think people's lack of understanding scientific methods is the mai
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by staunton 4y ago
As you say, the main use of category theory is to organize very different areas of math in one overarching framework and generalize ideas from one area of math to others. It might be used in the pursuit of developing AI but it is definitely

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